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Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus, 1758

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Artiodactyla - even-toed ungulates »  family Hippopotamidae »  genus Hippopotamus - hippopotamuses

Other names

= Common Hippopotamus
= River Hippopotamus

Type taxon of:Hippopotamus Linnaeus, 1758

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Hippopotamus amphibius - Hippopotamus

female

Author: Ladislav Míček

Hippopotamus amphibius - Hippopotamus

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Author: Milan Kořínek

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Intertaxon relationships

predator: Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758) - Lion, Crocuta crocuta (Erxleben, 1777) - Spotted Hyena

parasite: Dipetalonema hippopotami Leiper, 1910, Placobdelloides jaegerskioeldi Johansson, 1909, Cosmiomma hippopotamensis (Denny, 1843)

Included taxa

Number of records: 3

subspecies Hippopotamus amphibius amphibius Linnaeus, 1758 - Nile Hippo

Hippopotamus amphibius amphibius

subspecies Hippopotamus amphibius capensis Desmoulins, 1825

Hippopotamus amphibius capensis

subspecies Hippopotamus amphibius kiboko Heller, 1914

Hippopotamus amphibius kiboko


Links and literature

http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/sgs/pphsg...
Eltringham S. K., 1993. The Common Hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius.
EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [10103]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus, 1758]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN ASM Mammal Diversity Database 2.1 [1006390]

ASM Mammal Diversity Database [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/], American Society of Mammalogists [as Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus, 1758]
Data retrieved on: 29 May 2025
EN Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (editors) (2005): Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3] [as Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus, 1758]
Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
DE Zootier-Lexikon [192:flusspferd]

Dollinger P.: Zootier-Lexikon
Data retrieved on: 21 November 2018
CZ Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus, 1758]

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Explanations

species extinct or not found recently in area described by check-list